Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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