The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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