True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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