The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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