I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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