The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINTrue rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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