The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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