The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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.
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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.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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