Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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