Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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.
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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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