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 BALDWINThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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