The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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