You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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