The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing 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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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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To 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.
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