I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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 are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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