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#1

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 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, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#2

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#3

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

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#4

“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.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

3190 likes

#5

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#6

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

1925 likes

#7

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

tags: dissent, patriotism, protest

1095 likes

#8

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

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#9

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin

tags: social-commentary

641 likes

#10

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

tags: change, cry, people

578 likes

#11

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin

tags: education, freedom-of-thought

503 likes

#12

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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#13

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

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#14

“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
― James Baldwin

tags: inspirational

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#15

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: home

776 likes

#16

“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.”
― James Baldwin

340 likes

#17

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
― James Baldwin

406 likes

#18

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
― James Baldwin

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#19

“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: death, lessons, loneliness, love, survival

443 likes

#20

“No man is a devil in his own mind.”
― James Baldwin

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#21

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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#22

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: history, past

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#23

“Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant,
superbly contemptuous of all that is not
itself, and, as they very definition of passion
implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might
intimidiating power. It contains a challenge.
It contains an unspeakable hope.”
― James Baldwin

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#24

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”
― James Baldwin

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#25

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
― James Baldwin

tags: art

134 likes

#26

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”
― James Baldwin, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

80 likes

#27

“But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.”
― James Baldwin

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#28

“Literature is indispensable to the world. 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.”
― James Baldwin

tags: african-american, gay

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#29

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

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#30

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.”
― James Baldwin

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