Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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