It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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