The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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 paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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