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Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

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

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

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God and other artists are always a little obscure. – Oscar Wilde

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams

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Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves. – Billy Graham

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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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