The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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