Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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 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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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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