Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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