The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINTrue rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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