Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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 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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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