Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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It 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.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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