There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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