The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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