We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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