People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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