Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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