I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWIN
I 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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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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