There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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Na for old age ashewo Dey knw d value of pikin ?

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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, or who had ever been alive.

The reason people think it&#39;s important to be white is that they think it&#39;s important not to be black.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin

Quotes by James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

Written By James Baldwin

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