Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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