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.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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