If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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It 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.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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