You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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