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.
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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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