Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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