Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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