Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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