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.
JAMES BALDWINYou were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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