Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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