History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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