Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINThere 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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