Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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 can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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