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.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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