Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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