American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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