The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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