Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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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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