Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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