The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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