Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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