It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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