For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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 mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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