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
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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