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.
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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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