You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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