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.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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