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.
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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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