I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change 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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