To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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