There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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