It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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