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.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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