Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change 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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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