James Baldwin

The price one...

The price one...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly...

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The questions which...

The questions which...

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience...

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Life is more...

Life is more...

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

Source: In...

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Not everything that...

Not everything that...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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You know, it's...

You know, it's...

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you...

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The world is...

The world is...

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 primary distinction...

The primary distinction...

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must...

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The most dangerous...

The most dangerous...

The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.

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I want to...

I want to...

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Source: Notes of a Native Son,...

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Any writer, I...

Any writer, I...

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the...

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It is very...

It is very...

It is very nearly impossible. . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent...

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One can only...

One can only...

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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All art is...

All art is...

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to...

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You write in...

You write in...

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that...

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People pay for...

People pay for...

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very...

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A child cannot...

A child cannot...

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be...

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The paradox of...

The paradox of...

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society...

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Every legend, moreover,...

Every legend, moreover,...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe...

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The world changes...

The world changes...

The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way . . . people...

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It is only...

It is only...

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to...

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