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 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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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 don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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