You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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