If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWIN
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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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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