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James A. Baldwin


American
August 2, 1924
Author
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.


James A. Baldwin
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.


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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.


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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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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 only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
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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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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin
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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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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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 A. Baldwin
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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.
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Tags: You About More