Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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