When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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