If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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