All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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