You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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