Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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