It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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