The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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