It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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