Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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