American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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