Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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