American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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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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