The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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