People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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