Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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