Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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