I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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