Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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