For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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 don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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