For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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