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.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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