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Able Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now,…
- If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
- 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.
- In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,…
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
- All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that…
- 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…
- We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have…
- It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the…
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