Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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