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American Educator, Writer August 6, 1924 – November 30, 1987

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James Baldwin quote: "If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think..."
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are. James Baldwin
Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his..."
His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his hot, sweet breath also made me want to vomit. James Baldwin
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. James Baldwin
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. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which..."
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. James Baldwin
Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare. James Baldwin
If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. James Baldwin
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 James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "No man is a devil in his own mind."
No man is a devil in his own mind. James Baldwin
she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered..."
Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being. James Baldwin
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. James Baldwin
It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you James Baldwin
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. James Baldwin

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