Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINPlease 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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 one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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