You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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