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.
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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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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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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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