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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.


James A. Baldwin

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JAMES BALDWIN Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are...
JAMES BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the indepen...
JAMES BALDWIN If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.
JAMES BALDWIN It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, b...
JAMES BALDWIN Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
JAMES BALDWIN If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impass...
JAMES BALDWIN In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word...
JAMES BALDWIN But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the s...
JAMES BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES BALDWIN If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory pl...
JAMES BALDWIN And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
JAMES BALDWIN The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization...
JAMES BALDWIN Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents,...
JAMES BALDWIN I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked...
JAMES BALDWIN Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, f...
JAMES BALDWIN Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that ga...
JAMES BALDWIN