I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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