Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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You 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.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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