I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINTo 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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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