The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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