I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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