It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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