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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.

James Baldwin

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beautiful History Terrible
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN

Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN

Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World

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