The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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