There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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