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 BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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