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.
JAMES BALDWIN
You 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 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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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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