No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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