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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

James Baldwin

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWIN

Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
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
JAMES BALDWIN

Cruel Death Die Live Love
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN

Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWIN

Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWIN

Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWIN

Mirror People Person Truth
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering

People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

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