Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change 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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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 is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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