People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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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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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.
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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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