For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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