Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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