The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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