The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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