All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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