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.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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.
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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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