The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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