People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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