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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

James Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN

Book Pain Read
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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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
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 BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Book One Liner Wonder World
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN

Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

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