If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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