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.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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