You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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