If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES A. BALDWINA child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
More James A. Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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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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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
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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 think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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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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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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