100+ James Baldwin Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Cruel Death Die Live Love
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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According Change People Person Reality World
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
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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Art Force Reality Represent
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
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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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Commit Crime Lie

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