People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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