People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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