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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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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