People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change 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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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