There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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