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.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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