To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINLove 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.
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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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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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