It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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