All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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