Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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