People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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