The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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