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 BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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.
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