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.
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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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