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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"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 making of bread."
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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