People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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