We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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