The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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