The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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