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.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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