The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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