American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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