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.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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