The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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