The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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