I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

—James Baldwin

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About James Baldwin

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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top...

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

—James Baldwin

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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 end of safety.

—James Baldwin

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There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord.… I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock.

—James Baldwin

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

—James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

—James Baldwin

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The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.

—Tellis Frank

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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

—Eddie Izzard

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Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.

—Frantz Fanon

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