You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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