History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
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 are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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