Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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