No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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