There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in 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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