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.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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