People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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