I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINIf the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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