It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINI 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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