The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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