There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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