Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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