Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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.
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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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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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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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