You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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