If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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