All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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