I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
JAMES A. BALDWINA man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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When the South has trouble with its Negroes – when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place” – it blames “outside agitators” and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
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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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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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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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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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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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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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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.
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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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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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