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.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If 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.
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