The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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