Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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