Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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