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“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name...
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ― James Baldwin The Associated Press reports that at least 38 girls and young women were killed while travelling on the back of an open truck that smashed into another...
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“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” ― James Baldwin During my last year of course work in the grad film department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, I was sitting in my weekly master class conducted by Spike Lee, and listened...
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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.” ― James Baldwin This week marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina devasted the inhabitants of New Orleans. A nation...
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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” ― James Baldwin I love it when people stand on their word, especially when it costs them more than most would...
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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” ― James Baldwin Christopher Starks, a college junior at Savannah State University, had everything to gain. The person who shot and killed him Thursday night in the school’s student union building apparently believed the...
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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” ― James Baldwin The first black general in the Marine Corps, Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in...
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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.” ― James Baldwin Michael Dwayne Vick, my QB since his days at Virginia Tech, is now the backup QB to...
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“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Amelia Boynton Robinson, known as the matriarch of the voting...