For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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