Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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