Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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It 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.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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