No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I 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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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 you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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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.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 breaking of bread.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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