If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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