Life 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.
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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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