Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINLove 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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