Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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