For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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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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