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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about 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 is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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