It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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To 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.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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