You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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