You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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