All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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