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.
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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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 have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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