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.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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