Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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