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.
JAMES A. BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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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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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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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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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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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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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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You write in order to change the world.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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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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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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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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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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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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