When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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 think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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.
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