Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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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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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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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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 a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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