People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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