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Top 99 James Baldwin Quotes If I Love You

James Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright whose works explore themes of race, sexuality, and identity. Here are some of his most powerful quotes about love:

1. “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.”
2. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
3. “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.”
4. “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
5. “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.”
6. “The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
7. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
8. “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
9. “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”
10. “Love is a growing up.”
11. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
12. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
13. “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
14. “The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
15. “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
16. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
17. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
18. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
19. “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.”
20. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
21. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
22. “One can’t go through life without pain… What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”
23. “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
24. “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
25. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
26. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
27. “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
28. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
29. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
30. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
31. “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.”
32. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
33. “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
34. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
35. “I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I’m forced to be an optimist. I’m forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.”
36. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
37. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
38. “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
39. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
40. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
41. “People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
42. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
43. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
44. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
45. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
46. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
47. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
48. “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”
49. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
50. “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.”
51. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
52. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
53. “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
54. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
55. “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
56. “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
57. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
58. “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
59. “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
60. “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
61. “People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
62. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
63. “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.”
64. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
65. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
66. “Love is not a sentimental feeling of gushy delight. It is a choice, a commitment, a stand.”
67. “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.”
68. “The paradox of education is