The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing 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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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