Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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