For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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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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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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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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