Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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