There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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