For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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.
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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