At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
JAMES A. BALDWINIt is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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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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You write in order to change the world.
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I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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