I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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