The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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 write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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