The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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