For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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 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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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