You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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