The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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