Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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