You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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