Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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