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Free Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the…
- Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.
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