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 too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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 man is a devil in his own mind.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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