James Baldwin quotes

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We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helpl ...
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty--necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who ...
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison our ...
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify wit ...
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, ...
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the v ...
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and ...
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The reco ...
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and w ...
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