There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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