There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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