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 BALDWINYou don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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