Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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