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- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing…
- Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
- Great art can only be created out of love.
- One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
- When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I…
- A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
- Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in…
- Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
- For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be…
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
- The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.…
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