If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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