Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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