Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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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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