All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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