Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINTrue rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing 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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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