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There is no reason for you to...

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

After departure, only invisib...

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

A man's balance depends on th...

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Any honest examination of the...

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The future is like heaven-eve...

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The occurrence of an event is...

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Freedom lurked around us and ...

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

At bottom, to be colored mean...

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

In order for this to happen, ...

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I really do believe in the Ne...

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

All of us know, whether or no...

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Whoever is born in New York i...

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

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I think white gay people feel...

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Women manage, quite brilliant...

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

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Society is held together by o...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Everything in life depends on...

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People are continually pointi...

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The world's definitions are o...

The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

If you are going to be a writ...

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are few things under he...

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

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