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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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