When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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