To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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