Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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