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 BALDWINPlease 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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