No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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