Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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