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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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 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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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