You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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