Tag: James Baldwin
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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 Baldwin
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Baldwin
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin
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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.
James Baldwin
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James Baldwin
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James Baldwin
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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.
James Baldwin
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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James Baldwin
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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 Baldwin
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
James Baldwin