The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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 is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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