Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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 trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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