Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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