You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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