No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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