James Baldwin

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. ↗

— James Baldwin

#connection #leopold-senghor #perception #art

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #racism #life

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. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #death

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inspirational

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. ↗

— James Baldwin

#deception

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. ↗

— James Baldwin

#individuality #inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #courage

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inspirational

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #religion #love

Literature is indispensable to the world. 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. ↗

— James Baldwin

#gay #change

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. ↗

— James Baldwin

#art