For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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