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.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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