If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWIN
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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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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