Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINMost 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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