Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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