Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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