Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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