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.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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