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 BALDWINPeople 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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