The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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 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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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