When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINAny 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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