Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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