All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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 write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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