I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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