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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.

James Baldwin

No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
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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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Heaven People Silence

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