It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINIf the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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