Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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