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“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”
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James Baldwin
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“If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.”
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“We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“I went down again. My heart and I went down again. I was aware of her hand. I was aware of my breathing. I could no longer see it, but I was aware of her face.”
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
“I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
