Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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