Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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