All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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