For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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 can cry much easier than they can change.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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