If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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