People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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