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.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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