The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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It 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.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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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