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.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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