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.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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