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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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