Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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