Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINHistory is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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 cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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