Tag: James Baldwin
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James Baldwin
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The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
James Baldwin
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James Baldwin
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You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.
James Baldwin
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James Baldwin
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin