Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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