I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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 paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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