It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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