People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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