The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINLove 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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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 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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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