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.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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