No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in 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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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