To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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