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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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 is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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