When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINLife 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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