Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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 few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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 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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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