Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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