It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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