To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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