Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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