If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWINPlease try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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