Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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