It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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