Quotes by James Baldwin

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

American writer

Lived from: 1924 - 1987

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 august 1924 Died: 1 december 1987

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  • If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
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  • 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.
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  • It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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  • It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
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  • It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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  • It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
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  • It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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  • It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
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  • It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
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  • It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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  • It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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  • 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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  • Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
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  • Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
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  • 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 shock.
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  • No man is a devil in his own mind.
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  • 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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  • No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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  • 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.
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  • No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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