I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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