I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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