You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -James Baldwin

 

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.


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This quote is just one of 9 total James Baldwin quotes in our collection. James Baldwin is known for saying 'You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

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

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Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up.

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