Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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No one 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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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