Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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 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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