The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal 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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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