The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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