Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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