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James Baldwin Quotes
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Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden...I wonder why. (James Baldwin Quotes)
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night (James Baldwin Quotes)
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers (James Baldwin Quotes)
Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don’t know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. (James 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 Baldwin Quotes)
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible. (James Baldwin Quotes)
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. (James Baldwin Quotes)
The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. (James Baldwin Quotes)
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not. (James Baldwin Quotes)
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. (James Baldwin Quotes)
The future is... Black (James Baldwin Quotes)
A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him (James Baldwin Quotes)
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced (James Baldwin Quotes)
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 (James Baldwin Quotes)
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power (James Baldwin Quotes)
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have (James Baldwin Quotes)
The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose (James Baldwin Quotes)
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and now we cannot live within (James Baldwin Quotes)
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 (James Baldwin Quotes)
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 (James Baldwin Quotes)
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now (James Baldwin Quotes)
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it (James Baldwin Quotes)
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. and we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities (James Baldwin Quotes)
Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor (James Baldwin Quotes)
To have been where we were, to have paid the price we have paid, to have survived, and to have shaken up the world the way we have is a rare journey (James Baldwin Quotes)
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger (James Baldwin Quotes)
They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to despise them (James Baldwin Quotes)
True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever for a passion can destroy one’s life (James Baldwin Quotes)
Consider the history of labor in a country in which, spiritually speaking, there are no workers, only candidates for the hand of the boss’s daughter (James Baldwin Quotes)
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others (James Baldwin Quotes)
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