Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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