Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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