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 BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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