People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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