The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINThose 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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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