All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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