Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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 often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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