It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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