Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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