If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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.
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