To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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No one 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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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