It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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