People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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 you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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