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.
JAMES BALDWIN
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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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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If 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.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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 often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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