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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.

James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Book One Liner Wonder World
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN

Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN

Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWIN

Attitude Insult One Liner Revenge Self Love Thinking
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing

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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