No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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