Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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