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.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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