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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.

James Baldwin

Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWIN

Country Humour Love One Liner
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWIN

Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
JAMES BALDWIN

Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Imitate Listen Parents
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN

Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWIN

Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner

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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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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