… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
JAMES A. BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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