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James A Baldwin Quotes

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up Picture Quote #1

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven Picture Quote #1

If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it Picture Quote #1

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is Picture Quote #1

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world Picture Quote #1

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity Picture Quote #1

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To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced Picture Quote #1

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see Picture Quote #1

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street Picture Quote #1

There is something terribly radical about believing that one’s own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform Picture Quote #1

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly Picture Quote #1

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win Picture Quote #1

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I’m beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn’t make sense, how could it happen? Picture Quote #1

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return Picture Quote #1

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all Picture Quote #1

You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Education is indoctrination if you’re white - subjugation if you’re black Picture Quote #1

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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide Picture Quote #1

There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it Picture Quote #1

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian Picture Quote #1

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking Picture Quote #1

Americans should never come to Europe,’ she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, ‘it means they never can be happy again. What’s the good of an American who isn’t happy? Happiness was all we had Picture Quote #1

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him Picture Quote #1

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide Picture Quote #1

Words like ‘freedom’, ‘justice’ and ‘democracy’ are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply Picture Quote #1

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One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up (James A Baldwin Quotes) A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven (James A Baldwin Quotes) If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it (James A Baldwin Quotes) The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is (James A Baldwin Quotes) The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world (James A Baldwin Quotes) To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity (James A Baldwin Quotes) To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced (James A Baldwin Quotes) It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see (James A Baldwin Quotes) People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street (James A Baldwin Quotes) There is something terribly radical about believing that one’s own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform (James A Baldwin Quotes) The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly (James A Baldwin Quotes) And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win (James A Baldwin Quotes) I’m beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn’t make sense, how could it happen? (James A Baldwin Quotes) One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return (James A Baldwin Quotes) The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all (James A Baldwin Quotes) You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble (James A Baldwin Quotes) 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 A Baldwin Quotes) Education is indoctrination if you’re white - subjugation if you’re black (James A Baldwin Quotes) The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever (James A Baldwin Quotes) 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 (James A Baldwin Quotes) The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide (James A Baldwin Quotes) There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it (James A Baldwin Quotes) It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian (James A Baldwin Quotes) The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land (James A Baldwin Quotes) 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 (James A Baldwin Quotes) When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking (James A Baldwin Quotes) Americans should never come to Europe,’ she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, ‘it means they never can be happy again. What’s the good of an American who isn’t happy? Happiness was all we had (James A Baldwin Quotes) I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him (James A Baldwin Quotes) No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide (James A Baldwin Quotes) Words like ‘freedom’, ‘justice’ and ‘democracy’ are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply (James A Baldwin Quotes)

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