All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN
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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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 was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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