I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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