All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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