When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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