Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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