Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
JAMES A. BALDWINThere is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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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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There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
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A devotion to humanity is… too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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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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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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