The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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