Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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.
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