The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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