Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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