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 BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about 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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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