No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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