I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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