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.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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