Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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