We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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