The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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