There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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