No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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