For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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