All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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