There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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