Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about 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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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