There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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