The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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