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.
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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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 often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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