I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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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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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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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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