The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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.
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