There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINMost 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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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 is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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