Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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