People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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