Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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