It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
James BaldwinThis is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
James BaldwinThe face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested so much within oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James BaldwinPeople who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.
James BaldwinThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James BaldwinIf you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.
James BaldwinPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James BaldwinTag: philosophy home safety fulfillment psychology security completion anchoring attachment belonging comfort permanence state-of-mind irrevocability
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James BaldwinHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
James BaldwinWe are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.
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