There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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