The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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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