The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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