The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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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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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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