Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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