All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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