Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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