I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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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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