All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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