Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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