Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINYou don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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