I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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