Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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 world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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