You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINYou don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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 a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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