Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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