Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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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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