There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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You 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.
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