If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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