There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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To 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.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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