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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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 can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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