The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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