People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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