True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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