Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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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.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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 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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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