Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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 a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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