There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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