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 BALDWINIt 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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