All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINThere 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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