There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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