Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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