I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There 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.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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