Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Life 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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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