Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in 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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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