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.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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