There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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