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.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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