No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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It 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.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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