Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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