I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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