You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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