When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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