To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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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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