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Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James A. Baldwin

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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.
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When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their place - it blames outside agitators and Northern interference. When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.
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