Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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