Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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 few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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