Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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