People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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