To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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