The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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