James A. Baldwin Quotes About Purpose
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
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The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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