Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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