Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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