American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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 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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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