The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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