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.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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 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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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