The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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