Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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