Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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 is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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