The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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