Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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