James Baldwin

If you're treated...

If you're treated...

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being...

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But the relationship...

But the relationship...

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

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Know from whence...

Know from whence...

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can...

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The responsibility of...

The responsibility of...

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced...

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Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

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American history is...

American history is...

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

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Pessimists are the...

Pessimists are the...

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the...

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The purpose of...

The purpose of...

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

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Most of us...

Most of us...

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of...

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He may be...

He may be...

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun...

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What passes for...

What passes for...

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for...

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Experience is a...

Experience is a...

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Source: A Question...

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Society is held...

Society is held...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will...

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There is never...

There is never...

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

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The making of...

The making of...

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself...

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People who shut...

People who shut...

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a...

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No one is...

No one is...

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is...

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Americans, unhappily, have...

Americans, unhappily, have...

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant...

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Confronted with the...

Confronted with the...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free...

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Money, it turned...

Money, it turned...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other...

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