It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People 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.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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