The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINI 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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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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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