There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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