For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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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.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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