You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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