People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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