The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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