Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINMost 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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