It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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 too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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