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.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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