Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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