When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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.
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