It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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