You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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