If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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