People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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