The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINI 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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love 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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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