American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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