There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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