Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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