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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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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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