Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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