Life is more important than art that's what makes art important.
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.James Baldwin
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.
James Baldwin
Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.
James Baldwin
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James Baldwin
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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