Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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