Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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