Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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