We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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