The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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