For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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