Best Quotes by James Baldwin (Top 8)
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James Baldwin
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin