If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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