I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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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 was a country he knew nothing about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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