Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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