The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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