For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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