There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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