For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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