Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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 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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate 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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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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