People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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