All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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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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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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