I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINHistory 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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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