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 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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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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