Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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
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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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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.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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