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 BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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