Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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