If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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