Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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You 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.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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