When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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