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]
JAMES A. BALDWIN… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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It 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.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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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 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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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life — without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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