People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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