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 BALDWINTo 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about 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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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