The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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