Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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