I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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