The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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