American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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