The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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