If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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