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 BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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