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The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James A. Baldwin. Change, Children, Acceptance. "The Fire Next Time".
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- Not Everything That is Faced Can Be Changed. But Nothing
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
- “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 A. Baldwin.
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ― James Baldwin.
- “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ― James Baldwin.
Aug 13, 2021 · 8. “The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” — Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. 9. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply ...
- On Black Americans: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
- On ignorance: “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
- On oppression: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
- On rejecting victimhood: “Perhaps the turning point in one’s life is realizing that to be treated like a victim is not necessarily to become one.”
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” - Baldwin speaking to LIFE magazine in 1963.
- “Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.”
- “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” – The Fire Next Time.
- “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” – Nobody Knows My Name.
James Baldwin Quotes - BrainyQuote. American - Novelist August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987. 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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Jan 31, 2024 · 75 James Baldwin quotes pulled from essays, interviews, speeches, letters and novels, curated and woven to tell the story of Baldwin’s life.
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