Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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