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 breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINAny 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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