For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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