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Employment is my right my destiny.
James A. Baldwin
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Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
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Somebody, said Jacques, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.
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Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
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Not only was I not born to be a slave I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
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All racists are irresponsible.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.
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One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
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And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
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A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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