The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINI 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Any 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.
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