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.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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