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.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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