The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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