The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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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.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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