Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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