Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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