We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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