Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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