Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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It 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.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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