For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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