The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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