People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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