It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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