Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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