People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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