Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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.
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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 world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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