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.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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