I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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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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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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