For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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