You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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