Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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