Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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