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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.

James Baldwin

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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Alive Connect People Teaching
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWIN

Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
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 BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWIN

Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Arrive People Perpetual World
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWIN

Colour Human Naked Sex
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Hide Purpose
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Born Change Inspirational Shock State
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety

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