James Baldwin ,quotes

To be a Negro in this country...

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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You know, it's not the world ...

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

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Life is tragic simply because...

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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Pessimists are the people who...

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

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But the relationship of moral...

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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Everybody's journey is indivi...

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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No people come into possessio...

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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Any writer, I suppose, feels ...

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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To act is to be committed, an...

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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People pay for what they do, ...

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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I love America more than any ...

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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American history is longer, l...

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

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The paradox of education is p...

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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Love him and let him love you...

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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Nothing is more desirable tha...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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People are trapped in history...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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No one can possibly know what...

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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There is never time in the fu...

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

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To be sensual, I think, is to...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

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The South is very beautiful b...

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

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