I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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