American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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 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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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